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Eric Millikin, also known as Eric Monster Millikin, is an American artist, humorist, and blogger. He is known for his pioneering work in Internet art, Postinternet art, and webcomics.〔(April15, 2012). "Eric Millikin". ''Parade Magazine''〕 His artwork is often controversial and semi-autobiographical, with political, romantic and horror themes. Millikin's artwork has also been published in books, serialized in newspapers, and displayed in art museums. The themes of Millikin's art often involve the occult, romantic relationships, and self-portraits as well as portraits of celebrities and political figures. The artwork is mixed media, often combining expressionist paintings and optical illusions with found objects. Millikin's works often have political themes, and the text is sometimes written in free verse or ambigrams. Millikin often collaborates with artist Casey Sorrow. == Notable artworks == * ''Totally Sweet,'' a series of pop art, large-scale portraits of monsters, each created from thousands of packages of Halloween candy and a single spider. Millikin uses over 40 different kinds of candy, and a single portrait can take between 5,000 and 10,000 candies. Included in the series are portraits of such monsters as Freddy Krueger, Lily Munster, Gort, Godzilla and the Bride of Frankenstein. Millikin compares his artistic technique of building large monsters from many smaller parts to the similar techniques Victor Frankenstein used to create his monster. * ''Hollywood Witch Trials,'' a series of painted portraits of celebrities like Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan based on their crime mug shots, stylized to look like witches, and combined with excerpts from transcripts of the Salem Witch Trials. * ''American Mayhem,'' a series that uses optical illusions to transform the flag of the United States into cityscapes filled with monsters, and incorporates ambigram calligraphy that reads when the paintings are hung upside down.〔Sjoberg, Lore (March 4, 2011). "Alt Text: Going Undercover at an Unregulated Content Farm", ''Wired''.〕 Inverting a national flag in such a way is a commonly used distress signal.〔36 U.S. Code (§176 )(a) provides: “The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.”〕 * ''Witches and Stitches,'' a series of early digital comics, from the 1980s, which were the first webcomics ever published. This unauthorized Wizard of Oz parody comic was published by Millikin on CompuServe as early as 1985 when he was in elementary school.〔Smith, K. Alexander. (September 19, 2011) "14 Awesome Webcomics To Distract You From Getting Things Done". Paste (magazine)〕 Publishing on Compuserve allowed Millikin to self-publish, avoiding censorship.〔Dorchak, Sarah. (September 29, 2011). "Pioneering the page: The decline of print comics, the growth of webcomics and the flexibility, innovation and controversy of both." Gauntlet.〕 ''Witches and Stitches'' was popular with audiences around the world and Millikin's success inspired many artists to create their own webcomics.〔Team Viva. (December 10, 2011). “(Comic relief )” The Pioneer.〕 Copies of ''Witches and Stitches'' are now often difficult to find because Millikin was threatened with a lawsuit over the comic.〔Garrity, Shaenon K. (April 10, 2011). “History of Webcomics” Comicdom Con, Athens, Greece.〕 Millikin's outspoken autobiographical style paved the way for other artists to express their thoughts and opinions on the web.〔Sreejita Biswas. (August 07, 2013 ). “(Stick ’Em Up! )” Bangalore Mirror.〕 * ''Literally Impossible,'' a series of Op art paintings created as answers to questions from a literacy test used to deny voting rights to African-Americans in the American south before the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The paintings feature illusionary impossible objects, ambigrams and palindromes. * ''Fetus-X,'' a series of alternative comics created in collaboration with Casey Sorrow. ''Fetus-X'' featured a psychic zombie fetus floating in a jar of formaldehyde who may or may not be Millikin's missing conjoined twin or his clone from an alternate timeline or dimension.〔Simins, Elizabeth (Dec. 10, 2008). "A&E Top 10s: From the Cliché to the Controversial". Columbia Spectator〕 The comic was run for a short time in Michigan State University's ''The State News'' in 2000. After the Catholic League protested the comic and then MSU president M. Peter McPherson declared he wanted it banned, the comic strip was removed for being too controversial. During the controversy over the comic, many people protested on both sides of the issue. The comic was also published in other student newspapers like the ''University Reporter''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eric Millikin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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